10 Groundbreaking Video Games That TOTALLY Missed The Mark

The first of the games on this list to try and do something totally new altogether, Mirror's Edge really goes out of its way to be different. With free-running as the core gameplay mechanic, anime-style cutscenes and a theme song almost as popular as the game itself, it seems that innovation was constantly at the forefront of the developers' minds.

But did it all pay off?

Yes and no.

For a game that lets you glide along walls and leap between buildings, the parkour-able objects, coloured a very obvious red, aren't as liberally placed as you'd like.

As such, the paths you can take feel linear and restrictive, which effectively defeats the purpose of free-running and might as well have been replaced with a bog-standard obstacle course. The combat sections are clunky and only serve to cancel out the momentum of the aforementioned parkour.

The story is a bit naff, too, which maybe wouldn't have been too big of an issue if the gameplay had made up for it. Overall, it's a grab-bag of interesting ideas, but no single one of them is really exploited to the degree it could have been. A shame.